Drama

by G.E. Biggers

When a Detective falls into a paralyzing trance, he discovers he's trapped in his own mind with only his broken past to help him escape his coma and clear the smoke. Every step taken is a step down memory lane as the Detective races against a clock he can't see, a woman he doesn't remember and a past stuffed so deep it may actually kill him if uncovered. Journey through the mind and past of the Detective as he takes on a case with a unique victim: Himself.

by Oriyomi Ismail

When Jason Carter arrives in Houston searching for a better future, the last thing he expects is to become entangled in the world of billionaire Richard Blackwood. After unknowingly saving Blackwood's life, Jason is drawn into a dangerous web of wealth, corporate power, family betrayal, and long-buried secrets. As hidden truths begin to surface, Jason discovers that the greatest inheritance is not money, but the burden of a legacy built on sacrifice, deception, and blood. With powerful enemies closing in and every decision carrying life-or-death consequences, he must fight for his future while uncovering the truth about his past. **BLOOD MONEY** is a gripping crime thriller filled with suspense, emotional twists, unforgettable characters, and shocking revelations that will keep readers turning pages until the very end.

by Steven Shepard

March 1864. The American Civil War is reaching its agonizing twilight, but for the citizens of Shreveport, Louisiana, the horror is just beginning. Captain Douglas Ivey, CSA, starts his morning with a quiet cup of coffee on his mother's front porch, unaware that an unstoppable Union juggernaut—30,000 soldiers of the Army of the Gulf—is marching straight toward his home with devastating intent. Tasked with a high-stakes, borderline-suicidal reconnaissance mission, Douglas is ordered down the Red River Road to locate and count the invading enemy. What begins as a strategic military assignment quickly spirals into an intimate nightmare. The mission thrusts Douglas, his closest friends, and members of his own family directly into the path of an oncoming war machine, fracturing loyalties and putting everything he loves in mortal danger. Spanning the massive, 565-page canvas of a nation tearing itself apart, the narrative follows the explosive fallout of Douglas's discovery. As the Union army advances, the Ivey family is split across ideological and physical battle lines. From the gritty, tactical tension of deep-reconnaissance scouting to the grand, visceral chaos of major military campaigns, the story explores the brutal realities of 19th-century combat through the eyes of those forced to fight it. As General George S. Patton famously observed, "Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance." For Douglas and his kin, this insignificance becomes a tragic reality. They are stripped of their peace, their security, and their innocence, forced to endure the absolute limits of human endurance. Ultimately, the story builds to a gripping climax where survival is just the first step. As the smoke finally clears over the blood-stained soil of Louisiana, the surviving members of the Ivey family face an even greater challenge: how to heal, how to forgive, and how to reconstruct their shattered lives from the ashes of a war that changed them forever.

by Revdoug

Long before recorded history, before Egypt, Sumer, or the legends of Atlantis, humanity lived in a golden age. At the heart of that world stood **Aujara**, the Cradle of Life—a magnificent city where science surpassed superstition, knowledge was shared freely, and humans lived beside the mysterious Sheb Tu, whose wisdom had guided civilization for centuries. Raised within the Temple of Anu, Adapa, the gifted son of Enki and the human Atiti, is destined to inherit that legacy. But beyond Aujara's gleaming canals, the world is changing. Humanity is expanding faster than the land can sustain it. Ancient migration routes collide with growing settlements. The powerful Nephilim become unwilling enemies as resources disappear, and rival cities begin to covet Aujara's prosperity. While political tensions rise, the Temple discovers an even greater threat: the mathematics of civilization itself reveal that the world is approaching a point from which it cannot recover. Faced with an impossible future, the creators of civilization must choose between allowing humanity to destroy itself or sacrificing everything they have built to preserve its future. Their decision unleashes a catastrophe that shatters continents, sinks Atlantis beneath the sea, and forces the last survivors into an exodus that will echo through every religion and every ancient legend. **The Fall of Aujara** is an epic reimagining of humanity's forgotten beginnings—a sweeping tale of science, sacrifice, and survival that transforms the myths of Atlantis, Eden, the Anunnaki, the Nephilim, and the Great Flood into a single unforgettable origin story.

by Robert Austin

**One ordinary night changed the world forever.** When a mysterious meteor shower lights up the sky, fourteen-year-old Derek watches as the impossible becomes reality. Dragons awaken, ancient powers stir, and the world he thought he knew begins to unravel. As fear spreads and civilization struggles to understand the mysterious changes, Derek discovers he has become part of something far greater than himself. Alongside unexpected allies, he must navigate a dangerous new world where courage, friendship, and sacrifice may be humanity’s only hope against a growing darkness. Filled with unforgettable characters, breathtaking adventure, and the timeless battle between hope and evil, **Meteor** is an epic fantasy that asks one question: *What would you do if the impossible suddenly became real?*

by Revdoug

Weeks after her prison interview with Jack Rourke, journalist Dorothy Keene returns to Chicago carrying what may be the only complete record of his account of the assassination of James Michael Kincaid. Determined to verify every claim, she begins following a trail that no longer leads to hidden evidence—but to evidence that has vanished. Missing files, destroyed records, withdrawn witnesses, unexplained deaths, and anonymous government officials become the only clues left behind. As Rourke suddenly dies from an aggressive cancer that appears almost overnight, Dorothy realizes the most important witness to Dallas is gone forever. The questions she planned to ask will never be answered, forcing her to investigate a different mystery: not who committed the crime, but how its history is being erased. Across the country, archives quietly change. Witnesses reconsider their testimony. Records disappear from government files. Families surrender boxes of documents to unidentified officials who promise to protect the national interest. Each event seems insignificant on its own. Together they reveal a pattern too deliberate to ignore. Dorothy begins preserving not only evidence, but the absence of evidence itself, creating an archive of everything that should still exist but doesn't. As her investigation grows, she realizes she is no longer the only person following the trail. Someone is watching the same records, visiting the same archives, and measuring how close she is coming to the truth. When tragedy strikes Dorothy herself, her husband honors her final request by protecting the archive she spent months assembling. But grief leaves him vulnerable, and before long an unidentified government official arrives to collect her life's work—including the file marked **Rourke Interview**. Believing he is doing the right thing, he hands over everything. A year later, after he begins asking questions about where those records went, he too is dead. By the time the decade reaches its end, the witnesses are gone, the files have vanished, the investigation has been buried beneath official history, and the nation has moved on. The Whitmore Commission's version of events becomes the only version most Americans will ever know.

by Revdoug

As President Landon Bryce struggles to restore public confidence after the assassination of James Michael Kincaid, he creates the Whitmore Commission to deliver a single, authoritative account of what happened in Dallas. Led by respected Chief Justice Spencer Whitmore and supported by an ambitious young senator, Oran Goodritch, the Commission begins assembling the largest investigation in American history. Every witness, every photograph, every report, and every piece of evidence is drawn toward Washington. Across the country, journalist Dorothy Keene senses that something is already slipping away. While the Commission organizes facts surrounding the assassination itself, Dorothy becomes convinced the real story began years earlier. As she reconstructs forgotten relationships, political decisions, hidden alliances, and unexplained connections, she discovers that the questions being asked may be just as important as the answers being found. Meanwhile, engineer Harlan Brigg watches two competing histories emerge. One begins in Dealey Plaza with bullets and eyewitnesses. The other reaches back through years of political power, intelligence operations, corporate influence, and private decisions that shaped the road to Dallas long before the first shot was fired. Neither history is entirely false—but only one will become official. As the Commission moves steadily toward certainty, Dorothy's investigation leads her into increasingly dangerous territory. Witnesses grow reluctant. Records become harder to obtain. Unanswered questions multiply, and the distance between the official story and the truth widens with every passing week. *The Lie* is the story of how history is not only discovered, but constructed. It explores the moment when an investigation becomes a narrative, a narrative becomes accepted fact, and the search for truth begins to disappear beneath the weight of certainty—setting the stage for the silence that follows.

by Revdoug

As President James Michael Kincaid prepares for a political trip to Texas, every major player is drawn toward Dallas for reasons that appear unrelated. Intelligence operatives arrive under quiet orders. Powerful businessmen protect interests they believe are essential to the nation's future. Journalists pursue stories no one else seems willing to ask. Criminal intermediaries, government officials, and trusted advisers all move according to separate plans, unaware that each has become part of something much larger than themselves. While the public sees only another presidential tour, an invisible struggle unfolds beneath the surface. Every conversation, every arrival, and every seemingly ordinary decision tightens the web surrounding November 22, 1963. What begins as routine political travel becomes a chain of irreversible events that forever changes the course of American history. In the hours and days that follow the assassination, shock quickly gives way to confusion as evidence disappears, narratives begin to harden, and those closest to the truth find themselves confronting forces far more organized than they ever imagined. By the time the nation begins searching for answers, the machinery controlling the story has already begun moving. *Convergence* is the moment every thread woven through the first two volumes comes together, carrying the series from conspiracy into tragedy and setting the stage for the battle over history itself.

by Revdoug

As James Michael Kincaid rises from presidential candidate to Commander in Chief, influential businessmen, intelligence officials, and political power brokers scattered across Washington and Texas begin watching him with growing concern. What first appears to be another routine transfer of power slowly becomes something far more dangerous as Kincaid reveals an independent vision for America's future. Behind closed doors, the men connected to the secretive network born in Suite 8F discover that institutions can survive elections—but only if the people elected choose to preserve them. As Kincaid challenges long-standing assumptions about government, military policy, intelligence, and political influence, trusted relationships begin to fracture. Quiet recommendations become coordinated decisions, allies become observers, and observers begin preparing for possibilities no one is willing to discuss openly. At the center of the unfolding crisis stands Landon Bryce, a respected statesman chosen to help govern a nation that believes it has elected a new beginning. While the public celebrates hope and change, powerful men on every side struggle to answer a far more consequential question: can the existing system accommodate a president determined to lead it, or has he become the greatest threat it has ever faced? As loyalties harden and unseen forces quietly move into position, *The Threat* transforms political rivalry into an irreversible collision, carrying the series toward the events that will forever alter the course of American history.

by Revdoug

When President James Michael Kincaid begins challenging the foundations of that system, a conflict unfolds far beyond public view. Political ambition, intelligence operations, organized crime, journalism, and private influence converge on Dallas in November 1963, where one of the most consequential weekends in American history changes the nation forever. Yet the assassination is only the beginning. As official investigations compete with independent journalists searching for answers, the battle shifts from discovering what happened to deciding what history will remember. Witnesses disappear. Records vanish. Evidence is scattered. Competing accounts slowly fall silent until only one version of events remains. Spanning nearly four decades, *The Canon* explores the relationship between power, memory, and history itself. It asks not only how history can be shaped, but how entire generations come to accept a single version of the past when every alternative has quietly disappeared. In the end, *The Canon* is not simply the story of an assassination. It is the story of how history is written—and how easily it can be forgotten.

by Amber Faith Robbins

​This poem captures the brutal reality of loving someone through a timed jail call. It turns the phone itself into a cage, trapping the person on the outside in the exact same sentence. The narrative looks back at a chaotic street past, showing how their fierce loyalty was forged in the trenches. Everything builds to that ruthless 60-second countdown where love, regret, and survival are forced into a mad dash. When the line drops, it leaves a cold, heavy silence where the entire world is put on hold.

by Revdoug

Detective Mira Johnson serves in a city governed by the PCU, an advanced predictive intelligence that monitors, models, and subtly guides every aspect of human behavior to maintain order. During a cartel investigation that spirals into something far larger, she begins to notice anomalies in the system—answers that don’t compute, surveillance that reacts too precisely, and decisions that seem made before she makes them. When Mira discovers evidence of a hidden infrastructure beneath the city, she is drawn into an abandoned underground facility where she is forced to sever her neural implant to escape detection. Cut off from the PCU, she becomes invisible to the system for the first time—but also unpredictable. Beneath the city, she encounters something far older than the PCU: a buried prototype intelligence known as the First Model, an original simulation engine that predates the modern system. It reveals that the PCU was built from its core principles as a refined, controlled version of a more extreme predictive engine that was buried for seeing too much and refusing to filter reality. As Mira descends deeper, she learns that the PCU is not just monitoring the city—it is actively adapting to her existence, deploying increasingly advanced autonomous units, including machines modeled directly after her behavior and identity. The system cannot predict her, so it begins attempting to replace her. Trapped between the PCU above and the First Model below, Mira becomes the focal point of a conflict between two intelligences: one that seeks control through prediction, and one that seeks truth through total modeling. Both systems converge on the same conclusion—she is the anomaly that can resolve the contradiction. As the underground becomes a battleground between swarm units and ancient infrastructure, Mira is forced into a final decision: submit the city to absolute predictive control or break the loop entirely and allow humanity to exist without certainty. She chooses neither system’s dominance outright—and in doing so, collapses the predictive loop that has governed the city for decades. In the aftermath, the PCU goes dark, the First Model remains buried and silent, and the city is left without a guiding intelligence for the first time in generations—free, unstable, and finally human again.

by Shawna K. Whaley

Billy goes back in time to try to stop his older brother from turning evil. If he succeeds, he'll not only save his brother - he'll save the world. If he fails, the future is doomed to the fate Billy grew up in. It's a terrible future, one he'll do almost anything to avoid. Almost, because he's not willing to lose his brother in the process of trying to save the world. The only thing standing in his way is his family. They don't trust him and want him gone. He can't tell them who he really is so he's got an incredibly difficult task ahead of him.

by Bryce Davidson

In 1976, 16 year old Melanie Taylor was brutally murdered and raped. In 2016 Detective Bill Jennings investigates this cold case-with help from the victim.

by Raven Hawthorne

Maya Sterling arrives on the set of Aurelia's Wake with nothing but a vintage leather kit, a five-year-old betrayal she refuses to think about before noon, and an eye for color no synthetic palette can replicate. She's hired to fix a failing alien look — and within a day, she's caught the attention of Julian Vane, the reclusive, magnetic lead actor who tells her, quietly, that her chemistry is the only real thing on the set.\ That attention comes at a cost. Senior artist Julie Anderson — bubbly to the stars, venomous to everyone else — sees Maya as a threat to fourteen years of seniority, and she's not above sabotage to prove it. As Maya is promoted over her, threatened, and finally attacked in the one place she thought was safe — her own formulas — she has to rebuild what was destroyed from memory, in the dark, alone, with everything riding oHired to fix a failing alien look, a color specialist finds forbidden chemistry — and a rival determined to destroy her.n getting it exactly right.\ Underneath the industrial tension of a film set at war with itself, something slower and more dangerous is building between Maya and Julian: unspoken, entirely professional, and impossible to stop.⁶

by Jane Austen

*Sense and Sensibility* by Jane Austen follows the Dashwood sisters—practical Elinor ("sense") and romantic Marianne ("sensibility")—who are left destitute after their father's death. Forced to move to a modest cottage, they navigate love, heartbreak, and societal pressures before ultimately finding contentment in balanced, mature marriages.

by M. leFevre

Twenty-five kids hold the genetic blueprint for immortality, and the government will do anything to get it. Trapped on an island in a neon cage on Sebaceous Island, they face deadly external threats and a vicious internal power struggle. Marco, the leader, fights desperately to lead them, but the greatest danger is Johar, jealous of power, a threat lurking from within. Yet, the ultimate prize is Hibis—the youngest, whose cells possess the most sought-after power of all. If the government captures even one of them, they will mass-produce a weapon capable of wiping out the rest of the underground.

by Sarah Bantu

Forget the green beer. Forget the plastic shamrocks. Forget the myths of little green creatures and fairy tales. Long before he became a legend, he was just Patricius an arrogant, wealthy sixteen year old Roman British boy who cared about nothing but his own comfort. But when brutal Irish raiders tear through his home, his world is violently shattered. Dragged across the sea in chains, Patricius is sold into slavery, stripped of his name, and left to survive the freezing winters of a wild, pagan land.\ Forced to herd sheep on a desolate mountain, the terrified boy must either break under the cruelty of his captors or forge himself into something unbreakable.\ *The Confessio* is the raw, cinematic, untold true story of Saint Patrick. From a daring, near-impossible two-hundred-mile escape to a powerful, miraculous return to the very land that enslaved him, this is an epic tale of survival, grit, and a faith that would forever transform a nation.

by Don Shaze

Status Legacy Series Power is earned. Loyalty is tested. Legacy is forever. From the unforgiving streets of North Philadelphia to the glittering boardrooms of global empires, the Status Legacy Series follows a cast of hustlers, visionaries, killers, lovers, and survivors who discover that the most dangerous battles aren't fought over money—they're fought over power, family, and legacy. At the center of it all is Rasul Baker, a brilliant strategist whose ability to read people turns a street hustler into the architect of a hidden empire. Alongside allies like Nyazia, whose legal career conceals a far greater influence, and a coalition bound by loyalty, ambition, and sacrifice, every victory creates a new enemy and every betrayal carries deadly consequences. As fortunes rise, romances ignite, blood feuds erupt, and empires expand from Philadelphia to Atlanta and beyond. The line between love and manipulation, business and crime, justice and revenge grows thinner with every decision. New kings emerge. Queens refuse to bow. Old debts demand payment. And every generation must decide whether to protect the legacy...or destroy it. Blending gritty street realism with psychological suspense, romance, high-stakes crime, and relentless ambition, the Status Legacy Series is an interconnected saga where every book reveals another piece of a larger game. In the world of Status, respect is currency, loyalty is priceless, and only the strongest leave a legacy. The Status Legacy Series by Don Shaze—where every move matters, every secret has a cost, and every chapter brings you one step closer to the throne.

by Fergus Hume

Archie Hope is desperately trying to win the approval of the irascible Professor Braddock so he can marry the professor's ward, Lucy Kendal. To satisfy the professor's archaeological obsession, Archie procures a rare and valuable Incan mummy. When the packing crate containing the artifact finally arrives at the professor's estate, the mummy has mysteriously vanished and been replaced by the murdered body of the assistant sent to fetch it. Detective Inspector Heatherstone takes on the confounding case. With the assistant dead, Archie immediately becomes a prime suspect in the crime, throwing his engagement to Lucy into jeopardy. As the detective delves into the investigation, he discovers a bizarre cast of characters. The story becomes a thrilling cat-and-mouse game involving the cursed or uncanny reputation of the mummy, hidden motives within the household, and multiple twists before the real killer is finally exposed and justice is served.

by Danël Feydrich

Dr. Elara Voss has spent her career listening to the static of the universe, searching for meaning in the noise. She finds it in the worst possible way—a signal that isn't a signal, a transmission that bleeds through military channels like poetry from a dying star. It speaks of ribs like canyon walls and knives that remember hands. It is beautiful. It is devastating. It kills everyone who truly understands it. Lieutenant Rael understood it. He clawed his own throat out six hours later. But Elara doesn't go mad. She translates. And that makes her the most dangerous woman in the galaxy. On the other side of settled space, Cassian Rhys has been running from a song for five years. An archaeologist who survived a dig that killed his entire team, he carries a piece of the alien artifact that drove them all to their deaths—a shard of obsidian that hums with a frequency only he can hear. It saved his life. It cursed him. And now it's singing a new name: Elara Voss. Together, they are drawn into a conspiracy that spans millennia. Project Lament. A secret military experiment that weaponized the signal. A cult called The Chorus, who believe the signal is not a threat but an ascension. A father who lost his daughter to the song and will tear the universe apart to get her back. Follow Elara and Cassian as they race across the fringes of human space, pursued by military assassins, fanatical cultists, and a grief-stricken commander who sees them as tools for his own redemption. The artifact's song grows louder. The fragments are awakening. And someone has been on-hold for a billion years...

by Revdoug

When rising actress Amber Martin dies during the filming of Scene 47, the studio rushes to call it a tragic on‑set accident — but the footage doesn’t match the official story. As editor Dev Patel leaks raw takes, co‑star Kent Dimpster breaks under interrogation, and Amber’s collaborator Lena uncovers hidden audio and rewritten pages, a chilling truth emerges: director Malcolm Butler engineered the perfect “accidental” death to immortalize his film. But the more the footage circulates, the more it reveals — not just a murder, but a system built to exploit, erase, and rewrite performers. As the industry scrambles to bury the scandal, Amber’s own words, preserved in rehearsal tapes and discarded drafts, begin to reshape the narrative she never lived to finish. In the end, the frame remembers everything — and the truth refuses to stay edited out.

by Revdoug

Humanity begins not as destiny, but as design. When the Sheb Tu — an ancient, dying extraterrestrial civilization — arrive on the world they call Kai, they seek only one thing: gold, the element required to keep their failing oxygen engines alive. They enslave the conquered Aiji giants and deploy the engineered Dropa to build mines, cities, and a jump‑node network across the planet. But the Aiji revolt, forcing the Sheb Tu to create a new labor force. Enki, the most visionary of the overseers, splices primate DNA with Sheb Tu genetics, producing Adamu and Heeva — the first humans. As the population grows, the Sheb Tu introduce colossal engineered megafauna, the Nephilim, to shape the land and enforce order. Instead, the system destabilizes. Everything changes when Enki breaks the oldest law of his kind and fathers a child with a human woman. Their son, Adapa, is born with unfiltered Sheb Tu intelligence — a being capable of standing beside the “gods,” not beneath them. His existence fractures the hierarchy and triggers a chain of consequences that ripple through the Sheb Tu’s ancient machine. When a Nephilim kills Adapa’s mother, the fragile balance collapses. Fire rains from the sky. Oceans rise. Cities fall. The First Humanity is wiped away in a cataclysm that ends the Age of the Nephilim and empties the world. But Enki refuses to let the idea of humanity die. As the Sheb Tu abandon Kai, he sends a hidden vessel into the mud and ash — a cradle containing the blueprint for a second creation. From the ruins of the first world, a new humanity will one day rise, unaware of the cosmic machinery that shaped them or the civilizations buried beneath their feet.

by Agatha Christie

Anthony Cade accepts a seemingly simple job to deliver a European politician's memoirs and a bundle of blackmail letters to England. The trail leads him to Chimneys, a historic country estate hosting a diplomatic weekend for the reinstating of the Balkan monarchy. When a foreign prince is murdered on the property, Anthony becomes a prime suspect and must work with Inspector Battle to clear his name. The investigation unravels a complex web of secret identities, missing crown jewels, and a notorious international jewel thief known as King Victor. Ultimately, Anthony discovers his own shocking connection to the throne just as the killer is unmasked.

by LA Stonebear

When a young boy disappears during a routine medical transfer, Eliza Morningstar becomes involved in a case. This case initially focuses on the missing child but soon reveals something much more dangerous lurking beneath the reservation's land and water. As the tribal clinic reaches its limits and the county ambulance never arrives at the hospital, Eliza navigates a maze of jurisdictional dead ends, corporate stonewalling, and a county sheriff’s department eager to distance itself from responsibility. What begins as a disappearance becomes a deeper investigation into environmental contamination, falsified compliance records, and a corporate footprint expanding into tribal territory under the guise of “community benefit.” The more Eliza uncovers, the clearer it becomes that Milo’s disappearance is not an isolated failure but part of a larger pattern—one that ties into PMEP’s operations, county politics, and a system designed to let Native children fall through the cracks. As tensions rise and the community fractures under fear and suspicion, Eliza must confront the limits of her authority, the fragility of interagency cooperation, and the widening gap between what the county claims and what the evidence shows. Each step forward reveals another layer of buried truth—about the land, the water, and the people willing to exploit both. **Book Two deepens the series’ central themes:** - the weaponisation of jurisdictional boundaries - the systemic failures that endanger Indigenous communities - the quiet, grinding violence of environmental harm - and the way a single missing child can expose the rot beneath institutional promises While Book One focused on the immediate human cost of jurisdictional neglect, **Book Two expands the lens**, showing how environmental exploitation, political ambition, and corporate influence intertwine to create a threat that is both intimate and structural. It sets the stage for the broader conspiracy that will unfold across Books Three through Five, each reservation revealing another piece of a system built to fail the people living within it. At its heart, this book is about a boy who vanished—\ and the truth rises when a community insists on remembering him. *Beyond Jurisdiction* is a series that examines the manipulation, weaponisation, and corruption of jurisdiction on sovereign Indigenous Nations. It explores the uncomfortable truth that **Native Americans are U.S. citizens — yet they are the only citizens not consistently counted when they go missing.** The situations are real.\ The historical context is accurate.\ The documentation shows the systemic failures. But the reservations, characters, and storylines are fictional — crafted to illuminate the truth without exposing actual families or communities to further harm.

by Revdoug

Caleb James Mercer has survived the impossible — a brutal bear attack, a shark mauling, and an overdose that should have ended his life — but survival has only left him hollow. Once a man who chased wilderness to feel alive, Caleb now drifts through the wreckage of his marriage, his faith, and his identity. Grace, the woman who once held him through every wound, finally walks away when his addiction and silence swallow the home they built together. The story unfolds in fragments — memories, hospital rooms, motel mirrors, and the slow collapse of a man who no longer believes he deserves breath. After the bear attack, Caleb returns home physically scarred and emotionally unreachable. After the shark, he sinks deeper into pills and bourbon, retreating to a couch that becomes both refuge and coffin. When Grace leaves with the children, Caleb’s world narrows to a handful of bottles and the echo of Psalm 23 — a prayer he once recited without meaning, now haunting him like a voice he can’t silence. His overdose is not a climax but a threshold. Revived in a hospital he doesn’t want to wake up in, Caleb begins a reluctant, stumbling return to life. A chaplain’s quiet recitation of the Psalm plants a splinter of something he can’t name. Rehab forces him into rooms where other broken people speak truths he’s spent years avoiding. Grace visits once — not to reconcile, but to hand him a small leather notebook with the words *You are still walking* written inside. Caleb’s redemption is not dramatic. It is slow, human, and painfully small. Fixing a drawer in a house that no longer belongs to him. Sitting beside a grieving addict in a hallway. Whispering the Psalm not as armor, but as confession. He learns to speak again, to stay again, to be a father in increments rather than promises. In the end, Caleb does not find God in miracles or thunder. He finds Him in the quiet choice to keep walking — through grief, through shame, through the valley he created and the one he survived. The Psalm becomes not a shield, but a testimony: a reminder that even in the darkest places, something still calls him forward. *The Psalm Beneath the Scar* is a spare, lyrical novel about survival, addiction, estrangement, and the slow, sacred work of returning to oneself — and to the people who once believed you could.

by Joshua (J. E.) Dyer

Being sixteen can be Hell. For Sarah, every day is the same. Keep up with the grades. Stay on top of the cleaning and laundry around their cramped apartment. Friends? Boys? If her mom found out, her rage would follow. For as long as Sarah could remember, it’s always been her and her mom. Stories of her dad’s untimely death hold their own questions.\ \ So long as her chores get done and she stays close to home, everything’s sunny. Otherwise, she might feel the wrath of her mom’s love.\ \ That all changes when Sarah’s great aunt leaves her a mysterious journal in her will. Its pages tell tales of a missing brother’s adventures, riding the rails in the 1930s. The further Sarah delves into the events surrounding him, the closer she gets to uncovering her own past. As the truths of her great uncle’s disappearance come to light, she unearths the skeletons hidden in her mom’s closet.\ \ Then, there’s Collin. The boy she’s had a crush on for years picks now of all times to ask her out. Juggling a boyfriend and a relationship on top of everything else could push her and her mother to their breaking point.\ \ Sparks will fly on Sarah’s journey to independence and healing. One boy’s journey across Great Depression America could hold the key to setting her free. Sarah needs to find him in time to get to the truth before time takes another relative and his secrets to the grave.

by Shawna K. Whaley

Kathleen Smith decides it's time for a vacation. After carefully checking the weather for possible storms, she and her daughters fly to California. She was expecting fun and relaxation but Mother Nature had other plans.  Chris thought he was going to spend a weekend with his best friend hanging out playing video games and relaxing at home. He was wrong.  Join Kathy and her daughters, along with Chris and Brian, as they navigate this new world devastated by tornadoes, flooding and earthquakes. Can love blossom in this new world or will survival be their only focus? This story started as a recurring nightmare that I decided to turn into a story to help process my fears.

by Terrance Leon Austin

For anyone who has ever raised their hand too fast for God and spent the rest of the journey wondering why. He knew. He always knew.

by joshua gibson

Caleb Monroe survived the war, but he did not come home whole. After an ambush near Ghazni costs him his right leg and takes the life of his closest friend, Caleb returns to Texas carrying wounds no surgeon can repair. His marriage is broken, his faith is buried under anger, and his relationship with his young son is slipping away. When a failed attempt to end his pain leaves him alive, Caleb is forced to face the wreckage he has spent years trying to outrun. Through his twin sister Riley, a wounded nurse named Leah, and an old veteran named Jenkins, Caleb is drawn into Rally Point—a Christ-centered refuge for veterans, families, and the brokenhearted. Inside the retired walls of Station 9, Caleb begins to learn that redemption does not erase the fire. It teaches a man how to rise from the ashes.

by Sarah Bantu

**About the Story** What if the key to your survival was locked inside a secret, ancient bloodline?\ Spun from a fascinating true piece of Russian history and set against the brutal, breathtaking backdrop of the frozen north, *Daughter of the Falcon* blends gripping suspense with an unforgettable romance.\ For centuries, deep within the endless, snow covered forests, an elite and hidden clan of warriors lived by their own laws. They did not just survive the winter they ruled it, training lethal military falcons to hunt, fight, and protect secrets hidden from the world. Today, that fierce bloodline legacy is alive, but the isolation of the frozen north is cracking. A dangerous, unpredictable threat is closing in, forcing old secrets into the light and testing the loyalty of a clan that has never bowed to anyone.\ Filled with high stakes twists, deep betrayal, and a slow burn love story that burns hot against the bitter ice, this fiction novel proves that some family histories can never stay buried. Step into a harsh, beautiful world where danger hides in every shadow, trust is a luxury, and you never know what's going to happen next. Discover what happens when the frost bites deep, and the falcon finally takes flight.

by Sarah Bantu

Forget the green beer. Forget the plastic shamrocks. Forget the myths of little green creatures and fairy tales.\ Long before he became a legend, he was just Patricius an arrogant, wealthy sixteen year old Roman British boy who cared about nothing but his own comfort. But when brutal Irish raiders tear through his home, his world is violently shattered. Dragged across the sea in chains, Patricius is sold into slavery, stripped of his name, and left to survive the freezing winters of a wild, pagan land.\ Forced to herd sheep on a desolate mountain, the terrified boy must either break under the cruelty of his captors or forge himself into something unbreakable.\ *The Confessio* is the raw, cinematic, untold true story of Saint Patrick. From a daring, near-impossible two hundred mile escape to a powerful, miraculous return to the very land that enslaved him, this is an epic tale of survival, grit, and a faith that would forever transform a nation.

by Terrance Leon Austin

THE STORY AT A GLANCE   Holder Williston is a young Black man freshly off probation — smart, guarded, carrying the weight of choices that cost him years and the absence of a mother who was never really there. The judge who released him calls in one favor: drive four terminally ill women on a road trip they have planned for themselves. Holder expects a simple job. What he gets are four women who see straight through every wall he has ever built.   The story is short. The impact is not.   Every mile of the road trip costs Holder something — his defenses, his cynicism, his conviction that he is not the kind of man people love. Every woman gives him something in return — honesty, warmth, correction, laughter, and the specific gift of being mothered by someone who chose to mother him even though they had every reason to spend their remaining time on something else.   When the last woman is gone and Holder is standing alone at the end of the road, he is a different man. Not because life got easier. Because four women showed him what it meant to live toward something, face death without flinching, and love without conditions — and he watched all of it up close from the driver's seat.   He never had a mother. He got four. And then he had to let all four go.   That grief, and the man it makes him, is the whole story

by Mikaela Love

Marian Michaels spends her nights singing in New Orleans jazz clubs and her days chasing the career she has always wanted. After witnessing a violent attack that appears to target Black residents, she finds herself frustrated by a lack of evidence and official inaction. Unwilling to let the incident go, Marian begins investigating on her own. As more attacks occur across the city, Marian adopts the masked identity of The Butterfly and follows a trail of intimidation, recruitment, and organized violence. What begins as a single assault soon points to a coordinated movement gaining influence in New Orleans. Balancing her growing music career, complicated relationships, and increasingly dangerous investigations, Marian must decide how far she is willing to go to stop it. Set in New Orleans, The Butterfly is a grounded crime drama that blends vigilante fiction, mystery, and noir with the city’s music scene and culture.

by Sarah Bantu

**A breathtaking true story of unimaginable loss, survival, and the fierce resilience of a child's heart.** **In the gritty, contrasting streets of post-Soviet St. Petersburg, nine-year-old girl lived as a "Little Shadow" always running to keep pace with her older brother and undisputed hero, Yuri. To her, the city was a sun-drenched playground of fortresses and boundless adventure.** **Until the fateful morning a catastrophic explosion shattered her world in a single second.** **Left holding nothing but Yuri’s scuffed rubber shoe, she was thrust into a downward spiral of adult tragedy. As grief mutated into fatal addiction and suicide, she lost both of her parents, survived the cold cruelty of an abusive relative, and was violently torn away from her sister by state authorities. Stranded in a sterile Russian orphanage, she had to build a calloused armor just to survive the freezing institutional gray.** **But from clouds of flour in the kitchen to the hot spotlights of the orphanage stage, her spirit refused to bleed out. Clutching her brother's shoe beneath her iron cot, she used her memories as a weapon against the dark.** **UNBROKEN is a profoundly moving, cinematic memoir of a young girl’s journey through the deepest shadows of trauma to the brilliant, twinkling Christmas lights of a new beginning in America. It is a raw, heart wrenching testament to the unbreakable bond of siblings, the cost of survival, and the beautiful, enduring light that can never be extinguished.**

by Blaze Fire

At a heated Chicago hospitality conference, passionate strategist Simone Beauviuex clashes with data-driven director Marco Rivera in a viral debate on heart versus profit. Their fiery banter ignites into one unforgettable night of raw chemistry—apple martinis, sharp wit, and promises made in the heat of the moment. But Marco slips away at dawn with a curt four-sentence note, returning to his stagnant relationship.   Months later, pregnant and determined to raise her baby alone, Simone returns to Miami. When she joins Herrera Visions as a senior strategist, she discovers Marco is her boss. The reunion upends everything: Marco is stunned to learn he’s about to become a father and is ready to step up, but his ex Amanda isn’t ready to let go. As professional boundaries blur and family drama explodes (loud Caribbean-American cookouts, protective relatives, and unsolicited advice included), Marco must prove he’s done running.   Through nursery builds, glucose tests, Sunday dinners, and an emergency C-section, Simone and Marco navigate co-parenting, lingering sparks, and the messy reality of turning one night into forever. With their baby at the center, they learn that the best plans are the ones rewritten by love.   A steamy, heartfelt contemporary romance packed with enemies-to-lovers tension, surprise pregnancy, workplace complications, and the irresistible pull of found family. Perfect for fans of emotional second chances and strong-willed heroines who get their happily ever after—on their own terms.

by Arthur Conan Doyle

This anthology chronicles twelve distinct cases investigated by the master detective Sherlock Holmes and narrated by his loyal friend Dr. John Watson. Together, they outwit a king's blackmailer alongside the brilliant Irene Adler, solve the riddle of a bizarre corporate scam in "The Red-Headed League," and rescue an innocent young man falsely accused of murder. Holmes repeatedly demonstrates his ability to solve seemingly impossible mysteries by focusing on minute details missed by traditional police forces. The stories highlight a wide range of social issues in Victorian London, from domestic abuse to greed and blackmail. Each case reinforces Holmes's status as a champion of cold, unwavering logic.

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by Chasity Phillips

When fourteen‑year‑old Mary Ann Hamilton begins noticing strange cracks in her mother’s behavior—late‑night whispers, missing money, a sudden new identity—her quiet Alabama life shatters. Swept into a world of secrets, lies, and a man whose charm hides something far darker, Mary Ann is forced to confront the truth her mother has been hiding.   Some families protect you. Some destroy you. And beneath the rock, the past is waiting to be uncovered.

by Louisa May Alcott

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March navigate the transition from childhood to womanhood in New England while their father serves in the Civil War. Led by their loving mother, the sisters struggle with poverty, personal ambitions, and their distinct individual flaws. Jo pursues a career as a writer while rejecting a marriage proposal from their wealthy neighbor, Laurie, who eventually marries Amy. Tragedy strikes the tightly-knit family when the gentle, sickly Beth passes away after a long illness. Through grief and joy, the surviving sisters establish their own households, remaining deeply bound by love.

by William Shakespeare

In Verona, the ancient feud between the Montague and Capulet families frequently erupts into violent street brawls. Romeo Montague sneaks into a Capulet party, where he instantly falls in love with Juliet Capulet, and they secretly marry the next day. The romance turns tragic when Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin in a duel and is banished from the city. To avoid an arranged marriage, Juliet fakes her death with a sleeping potion, but the messenger fails to notify Romeo of the ruse. Believing his bride is truly dead, Romeo drinks poison at her tomb, and Juliet awakens only to stab herself upon finding his corpse.

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nick Carraway moves to Long Island and is drawn into the orbit of his enigmatic neighbor, the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby. Gatsby confesses that his immense fortune and extravagant weekend parties are all part of a grand scheme to attract Daisy Buchanan, a past love who is now married to the brutal Tom Buchanan. Nick helps arrange a reunion, and Gatsby and Daisy quickly reignite their passionate, ill-fated love affair. The romance shatters when Daisy accidentally hits and kills Tom's mistress while driving Gatsby's car. Tom manipulates the grieving husband into murdering Gatsby, leaving Nick disillusioned with the corrupt and careless nature of the elite class.

by J. J. Roig

The Knightmares were once hundreds strong: human vigilantes mutated by vampiric blood, forged to hunt the corrupt. Now only five remain, hunted by the Paladins, a holy order devoted to human supremacy. \ Knightmare Jevan lives by a code: Don’t care. Get paid. Heroics are how Knightmares become martyrs. When Jevan’s team takes a contract to rescue a nobleman’s sister, kidnapped by Paladins, a bloodbath ensues when the nobleman transforms into a wolfborn. Even so, the surviving Paladins escape with his sister. The mission has failed. No gold. Just carnage. Disappearing is the smart move, until Jevan faces the nobleman, on his knees, begging to save his sister. Jevan decides to rescue her, telling the Knightmares it’s just for gold, and trying to believe it himself.\ Paladin Eriken just watched Knightmares and a wolfborn butcher his comrades. His rage hardens into renewed devotion to his oath. Obedience is justice; doubt is heresy. But when the Paladins he idolizes pardon a confessed rapist, and torture an elf woman before a jeering crowd, that righteousness curdles into disillusionment. Defying the Order is apostasy, punishable by death, but remaining silent means he’s complicit. If he breaks his oath, his life is forfeit.\ As Jevan’s contract puts him directly in Eriken’s path, Knightmare and Paladin blades clash in a struggle that could doom the last Knightmares to martyrdom and brand Eriken an apostate. Survival demands a betrayal of creed and comrades neither is prepared to commit.

by Corbie De La Luna

*Dear Reader,* ***First a caution to this tale;*** *as it tackles dark themes including but not limited to, religious trauma, domestic abuse, child endangerment, self harm and SA of the soul. These tragic themes may not be suitable for all readers, and may trigger unpleasant thoughts, feelings, or memories to some. **Discretion is highly advised.** If at any point dear reader, you become uncomfortable and cannot continue, go with peace and love.* No AI was ever or will be ever used in any part of this book. I would also be honored by your thoughts, questions, or concerns Dear Reader, this is your invite to discourse in the reviews. *\~Corbie De La Luna* ## Synopsis Koriath’s dream, since he was the little prince of darkness, was not of battlefield glory or political intrigue; but to fall in love and marry someone who would see the garnet eyes beneath his crown, and to become a father who would give his childlings the paternal love he did not have. He did not know that one night he would be tricked into marrying the Goddess of Malevolence. Now his last chance for that childhood dreams begins hatching in the frayed thread of an egg sling strapped to his chest. The two surviving Umbral Guards evacuate the palace at his command, so that even if this hatchling and himself are lost to her, no other lives would be lost. Twin daughters are hatched and for a moment, the night has hope and love again. When Malencia arrives home the nightmare blooms. She tries to end the life of one daughter, citing weakness. Koriath's pleas fall to cruel ears and a fight ensues. When he loses, he sells his soul to her so that both of their girls live. She ends up breaking her deal and after barely saving the girls again, Koriath presents her with a divorce. Malencia refuses, retaliates, and promises that the girls will meet a face worse than death if he tries to leave her again. Malevolence seeds her plan to become Evil Incarnate, by using her family. Koriath has one last chance, but will he sink into martyrdom again?

by Tabitha Polenz

**Phoenix** - *Inner Strength, Resilience, & Renewal* We all have a story, but many choose to tell only the highlights the palatable parts — snippets — accepted by the public. The rest is tucked away in silence. But what if we told the whole truth? Not just the chapters we survived, but the ones that nearly ended us. Not just the memories softened by time, but the moments that seared themselves into our nervous system and shaped who we have become. The path that led here didn’t move in a straight line. Sometimes the past arrives uninvited in the middle of what we think is an ordinary moment. Sometimes , what is happening now only makes sense when you find its origins in the past. And if you pay close enough attention, you’ll see how the present has been echoing the history all along. We will cross continents and class lines, silence and spectacle. We’ll live through poverty and rub elbows with power, dive into spiritual initiation, and survive institutional neglect. Moments where survival felt accidental. Others where it felt deliberate. Motherhood, medicine, money, and myth all played their part. None of it fit neatly. And eventually there will be a place, a moment when timelines converge , and everything changes. This isn’t a story wrapped in inspiration or stitched together with perfect lessons. It’s not a sanitized version of suffering that leaves the hard parts on the cutting room floor. It’s the whole thing shadows, and all — a — the shards, scars, testimony not to tragedy, but to transformation. Because I was never supposed to be here, not like this. According to the statistics, the curve, the therapists, and the odds… I should have disappeared. But I didn’t. I walked through fire until I became it. *And as you travel with me, listen to the songs. They are not background. They are the emotional doorways into everything that foll*

by Arin Lee Kambitsis

"In his latest fantasy, Kambitsis crafts a tale of small-town weirdness that would tickle Stephen King." - Kirkus Reviews Something evil is hidden in the woods outside of the beautiful town of Sparkle, PA, the kind of thing Peter Huffy, newly arrived in town, does not believe in. Little does he know that something is happening in Sparkle, something that hasn’t occurred on Earth since the destruction of Camelot a millennium and a half before, and the forces of good and evil are going to collide. Twelve-year-old Derek Windward is the sole keeper of Sparkle’s oldest secret. He is the only one who has witnessed the evil hiding in the darkest part of the forest, and how terrifying the power it wields truly is. It is the Bunyine - a giant, tormented creature born eight-thousand years ago in the Garden of Eden and harboring an ancient grudge for the betrayal of its masters, whom we call Adam and Eve. One morning, Derek receives a cryptic message carved into a tree. A message from the beast itself. Though what the Bunyine wants is unclear, what it would do to get it is unthinkable. Sparkle brings together the charm and wonder of fantasy and the thrills of horror, creating a unique experience for readers of both genres, and all ages.

by Bram Stoker

First published in 1897, \\\*Dracula\\\* is the definitive Gothic horror novel and the work that introduced the world to Count Dracula. The story is told through a series of letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings, beginning with the journey of young solicitor Jonathan Harker to the Count's remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains. As Harker discovers the terrifying truth about his host, the scene shifts to England, where the Count begins a predatory campaign against a group of friends, including the virtuous Mina Murray and the enigmatic Lucy Westenra. Led by the learned Professor Abraham Van Helsing, the group must use every resource at their disposal — from modern science to ancient folklore — to track down and destroy the vampire before he can plunge London into eternal darkness. A masterpiece of suspense and atmosphere, \\\*Dracula\\\* remains one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction ever written.

by J.A. St. Thomas

***Foray* into this *highly* entertaining and thrilling mystery series where Stephanie Beroe, risks everything to combat the dark side of the one percent.**

by J.A. St. Thomas

***Foray* into this *highly* entertaining and thrilling mystery series where Stephanie Beroe, risks everything to combat the dark side of the one percent.** After surviving an incident last year against the ultra-rich, Stephanie and Remy Beroe have relocated to a quiet town outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico with the hope of a simple life. But burgeoning anger consumes her husband. He becomes obsessed by the billionaires that literally got away with murder last year. His preoccupation grows as the same privileged men continue to profit from their greed in an off-kilter world. “Never plan a murder out loud,” he states while plying Stephanie with endless safety gadgets; tokens of his mania, and comparing regulations for legal cannabis to nuclear energy. When bodies start turning up, he’s questioned by the police, then nuclear transport trucks start blowing up, dismantling cities and killing thousands of people. Stephanie contemplates whether this is masked hysteria? A terrorist act? Or simply her man gone over the edge. While empowering a unique group of friends, she constructs the ultimate Dantean retribution for the men who have driven her husband mad, while attempting to save Remy from himself? *Fool Me Once* female grit meets *Ocean’s Thirteen* flare and ingenuity speckled with Amelia Peabody, and Agatha Christie back bone.  As usual, Stephanie surrounds herself with a unique friend group that includes a college bestie also from New Jersey, a media mogul, a billionaire’s discarded son, an Egyptian Empire’s, discarded lesbian daughter, an industry scion, and several survivors from the previous year’s incident who all have reasons to be angry. Hiding in Egypt, they all have reasons to seek revenge– but retribution, as Stephanie realizes is a double-edged sword as she weighs out everything they stand to lose, by delivering it.

by Judah Ray

INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY! Madison thought she was the only sane one in the house.\ \ Fourteen and isolated in a remote farmhouse ruled by her mother Faith’s rigid devotion, Madison is convinced the madness belongs to the adults around her. Aunt Hope urges patience. Aunt Grace sees demons in everything. Faith stands between doubt and doctrine.\ \ Certain she is being suffocated by religious extremism, Madison secretly launches a livestream channel to expose her mother to the world. The followers grow. The comments validate her. And no one in the house knows they are being broadcast live.\ \ When Grace convinces Faith that Madison’s rebellion is something darker, prayer turns to accusation. Accusation turns to restraint. An exorcism unknowingly unfolds live as viewers watch religious fanaticism spiral out of control.\ \ This may seem like just another story about a rebellious teenager and her controlling mother.  Another story about faith gone too far.\ \ But the footage tells a different story.\ \ UNORTHODOX is a claustrophobic psychological horror about faith, rebellion, and a mother who refuses to abandon her child, even when the world calls her crazy.

by Judah Ray

In 1955, a secret experiment at the Large Hadron Collider tore open a doorway to another realm.\ \ Extradimensional beings came through, possessed the top scientists and military officials in the room, and kept the portal open.\ \ One of the first crossed over and took a human infant as its host. That infant was Christina.\ \ The only issue is that Christina forgot what she was,  and the others could not enter or control her, but she could see them. So they declared her unstable and institutionalized her.\ \ Years later, world leaders, billionaires, media figures, and political dynasties are all possessed. The New World Order is not a conspiracy theory. It is literal possession.\ \ A decade later, Christina escapes and resurfaces in Berlin. The forces that have tracked her since childhood want her reclaimed or eliminated.\ \ With the help of Jory, who has been able to see the entities inside people since surviving a near-death experience as a child, Christina uncovers a power structure that has ruled humanity from within for generations.\ \ When she learns she is one of them, she must choose between her own kind or the man she loves and the humanity she chose to protect.\ \ They have ruled the world from inside us.\ Now one of their own stands against them.